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Hackett's best swim came in his specialty, the 1650-yd. freestyle. Leading after 500 yards, coach Joe Bernal's prize pupil cost himself a few extra minutes on Wide World of Sports when he succumbed to his old nemesis, UCLA freshman superstar Brian Goodell...
...expected, freshman standout Bobby Hackett led the Crimson cruise through Long Beach's Belmont Plaza Pool. The Yonkers flash placed in three individual events, and combined with teammates Malcolm Cooper, Julian Mack and Michael Coglin to grab the twelfth spot in the 800-yd. freestyle relay...
Goodell, who finished just ahead of Hackett in the 1500-meter free at the Montreal Olympics to take the gold medal there, erased Hackett's 1000-yd. American record (set at West Point in December) along the way to his triumph. Hackett finished second in 14:59.98 (a University record, of course), while Goodell's pace-setting time...
Harvard's other All-American sent such a shock through the pool that he almost shorted out the electric timing system. Golden Boy Malcolm F.S. Cooper, ranked 35th nationally in the 50-yd. freestyle before yesterday, took the supersonic transport back and forth across the pool and landed 20.84 seconds later to sneak into the consolation finals with the 12th fastest qualifying time...
Cooper turned in another spectacular performance in the 400-yd. medley relay, where he split a blazing 48.76 for the butterfly leg. The Crimson team of Geoff Seelen, Tuomo Kerola, Cooper and Julian Mack finished 22nd-in 3:27.53, which was just a few hundredths of a second off their time at Easterns...